Germany by Isaac Hoyt

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In 1971, Erich Honeckerbecame head of the Communist Party in East Germany. He used the Stasi the secretpolice, to rule for the next 18 years. In 1989, however,popular unrest, fueled by Honecker’s harsh regime, led many East Germans to flee their country. Mass demonstrations against the regime broke out in the fall of 1989.
On November 9, the Communist government surrendered to popular pressure by opening its entire border with the West. Hundreds of thousands of East Germans swarmed across the border. Families and friends who had not seen each other in decades were reunited. People on both sides of the wall began tearing it down. The government, helpless before this popular uprising, ordered the rest of the wall torn down. The Berlin Wall, long a symbol of the Cold War, was no more.
During East Germany’s first free elections in March 1990, the Christian Democrats won almost 50 percentof the vote. The Christian Democrats supported political union with West Germany.The reunification of East and West took place on October 3, 1990. What had seemed almost impossible at the beginning of 1989 had becomea reality by the end of 1990 the countries of West and East Germany had reunited toform one Germany.

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